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About the Author

M. J. Cooper (Chapters 1 and 11)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

Malcolm Cooper is one of the pioneers of Compton scattering studies of electron momentum density, with many research relevant publications and reviews over four decades. His Warwick research group has been particularly involved in the development of synchrotron-based Compton scattering studies of

ferromagnetism, at synchrotron rings in Europe and Japan. Currently he is Head of the Department of Physics at Warwick University.

Peter Mijnarends has spent most of his research career as an established international leader of positron annihilation studies of solids. He is now a guest scientist at Northeastern University and the Interfaculty Reactor Institute of Delft University of Technology.

N. Shiotani (Chapter 3, 9 and 11)

Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan.

Nobuhiro Shiotani's research has embraced first positron annihilation and latterly Compton scattering methods of studying Fermiology and electron momentum density in a wide range of solids.

Nobuhiko Sakai was involved in the very first Compton scattering studies of spin density using cooled beta-emitting polarized sources. Following this breakthrough he has developed synchrotron-based magnetic Compton scattering studies in Japan. His group has been concentrated in finding the change of

magnetic electron spin and orbital states in conjunction with crystal structure and phase transitions.

Arun Bansil leads a group that has led the development and implementation of methodology for carrying out first-principles calculations of spectral intensities relevant to angle-resolved photoemission, positron-annihilation angular correlation spectra and Compton profiles in complex systems, such

as the high-Tc's, within the framework of the local density approximation.